Assistant Financial Planning Analyst

BAE Systems; Nog Tow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and aerospace company is seeking a candidate to support the financial reporting processes and to provide insights for the finance team. The role requires a part-qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA/ICAEW) with proficiency in MS Office. The candidate will assist in the statutory reporting, project risk analysis, and promote improvements within the finance processes. A competitive salary and benefits package are offered.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellness benefits

Annual incentive

Responsibilities

• Support the Half year and Full year Statutory reporting process.
• Provide support to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.
• Assist in the preparation and reporting of the quarterly Project Risk Analysis.
• Support identification of end-to-end process and data improvements.

Skills

Part-qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA/ICAEW)

Proficient in MS Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Passionate about improvements and maintaining a continuous improvement culture

Tools

TM1 IBM Planning Analytics

Job description

Support the day-to-day financial reporting processes end to end: Capturing requirements, reviewing inputs, providing synthesis and issuing reporting and support with ad-hoc queries and reporting requirements from various stakeholders within Europe & International (E&I).

Key responsibilities include:

• Support the Half year and Full year Statutory reporting process, provide support to external audit during these periods and support the Monthly Financial Reporting process comparing actuals to budget and evaluation of key risk & opportunities
• Provide support to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process
• Assistance in the preparation and reporting of the quarterly Project Risk Analysis. Undertaking variance analysis to understand movements from previous reporting and forward looking to understand the risk burn-down profiles
• Support identification of end-to-end process and data improvements, promoting a continuous improvement mindset

The successful candidate will be part of the Finance team, responsible for supporting the delivery of high quality and forward looking financial evaluation and insights to the business. The team works alongside other finance capabilities to drive the enhancement of key business processes, working towards establishing data focused and digitally enabled performance reporting to meet the future business needs.

Requirements:

• Part-qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA/ICAEW) - AAT will not be accepted
• Proficient in MS Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Passionate about improvements and maintaining a continuous improvement culture

Desirable:

• Proficient with TM1 IBM Planning Analytics
• Background in FP&A

We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please note that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.

What we offer:

• Salary: £41,361+ (DOE)
• A competitive pension scheme
• Employee share plans
• An extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts
• An annual incentive (eligibility dependent)